Resultados para "The Contemporary Novel" en Narrativa femenina

La tímida June Jones vive en Chalcot, una pequeña población de Reino Unido, y es bibliotecaria de corazón. Sus mejores amigos son las personas que conoce cada día en el trabajo: el viejo Stanley, a quien ayuda con el ordenador; Chantal, una joven que busca un lugar tranquilo para estudiar; Leila, una refugiada que aprende inglés con ayuda de los libros de cocina que June elige para ella, o la activista Mrs. Bransworth, que critica todas las obras que encuentra en la biblioteca.

If Fiona has learned anything in life, it’s how to keep a secret - even from the father who raised her. She is the only person who knows about her late mother’s affair in Tuscany thirty years earlier, and she intends to keep it that way...until a lawyer calls with shocking news: her biological father has died and left her an incredible inheritance - along with two half siblings.

Treinta años después de Demasiado amor, vuelve Beatriz para contar una historia desgarradora sobre el mundo que se nos ha caído encima. En sus andanzas por cuatro continentes, Beatriz conocerá el vértigo de la violencia en algunas de sus formas más descarnadas, y se entregará de lleno a un mundo que recompensa los actos más vacíos y egoístas y castiga la inocencia y la solidaridad. Sara Sefchovich presenta una novela vertiginosa sobre la búsqueda de sentido en medio de las circunstancias más oscuras.

Newly installed at All Souls Lutheran, Mallory “Pastor Pete” Peterson soon realizes that her church isn’t merely going through turbulent waters, but is a sinking ship. With the help of five loyal members of the Naomi Circle, the young, bold minister brainstorms fundraising ideas. They all agree that the usual recipe book won’t add much to the parish coffers, but maybe one with all the ingredients on how to heat up relationships rather than casseroles will…

When famed chef Augustus Beauvais dies, he leaves behind a celebrated reputation—and four women grappling with loss, anger, pain, and the question of how the world will turn without him...

Jailbird. Klepto. Spectacular failure to launch. Nicole Wood’s sticky fingers have earned her many names, but it’s not that she’s stealing—some objects just need to be moved elsewhere, and the universe has chosen her to do it. Still, being a relocator of objects isn’t easy. With her marriage on the rocks, no real-world skills, and the threat of prison hanging over her head, Nicole is determined to change her ways.

One unbearable mistake at the edge of the forest. In a moment of crisis, Ellis Abbey leaves her daughter, Viola, unattended - for just a few minutes. But when she returns, Viola is gone. A breaking point in an already fractured marriage, Viola’s abduction causes Ellis to disappear as well - into grief, guilt, and addiction. Convinced she can only do more harm to her family, Ellis leaves her husband and young sons, burying her desperate ache for her children deeper with every step into the mountain wildernesses she treks alone.

At the age of thirty-nine, Alice Chang suddenly finds herself living in the last place she expected: her mother’s house. But in the face of divorce, eviction, and the recent death of her father, she doesn’t have a choice. Watching as her mother thrives in a new job and meets younger men at the local gym, Alice struggles, reflecting on her parents’ marriage, her relationship with each of them, as she adjusts to being single again for the first time in twenty years. Then she finds her father’s old journal...and uncovers a shocking family secret.

Elles també maten no és un exercici de literatura criminal femenina, que ja existeix i rutlla molt bé. Simplement és un recull de relats que demostra que les autores catalanes escriuen allò que els surt de l’ànima, però que si cal matar, maten. Tretze escriptores han compost un relat ben negre. Fora manies i supersticions. El tretze és un bon número i entre totes han construït una antologia que enlluerna per la diversitat de les veus que la integren.